Wetek - An Enigma? Some thoughts on a Kodi 15.2 and E2 system

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Crowded into my house are 4 media players (Dune/Mede8er) and an Apple TV used to play the 500+ video library based on 3 NAS boxes.
I have long looked for a better solution where I could use both Enigma2 (preferably OpenViX) and something like Kodi, so was instantly interested in the Wetek Play as a possible solution.

But 1st thanks to PB/Wetek for creating an E2 image on a ARM chip box, OpenATV for incorporating it into the OE-A and OpenVix for supplying my E2 image core from which I have built the "OpenViX" image.

Having tried to use the PBimage (and no available PB Git), I quickly wondered off to look at other alternatives and found that OpenATV were building an E2 image, so I incorporated all those changes into the OpenVix Wetek branch and ................... some months later I have an "OpenViX" full Kodi 15.2 image .... all on an micro SD card

So how does it run etc?
First E2 and Kodi 15.2 alternate - they don't run at the same time, which for me is fine but it does mean that it cannot run as your main E2 box, although my Wetek has 2 DVB-S2 tuners. The SD card is split into 3 file systems to support the E2/Kodi 15.2 requirements.

E2 features/Performance? Well as far as I have tested (Note: I don't run timeshift on my OpenViX receivers) everything runs like Vix You cannot stress it too much - recording 2 channels and then playing back one whilst still recording (to a very slow USB stick) kind of caused a few overhead issues and made it very slow to respond to the remote, but it didn't crash
Setup is like any E2 receiver, nothing special.
Normally boot time and general responsiveness is surprisingly good..... and apart from the fact that you cannot do a couch image update, everything seems like a normal Vix image.
The (optional) Wetek E2 remote is not wonderful (limited keys) but the RCU addon in E2 allows the Wetek to run with a collection of remotes and certainly my Xtrend remote works pretty well.
I have run the Wetek both direct and via the remote fallback tuner and picture quality on my Monitor (it outputs 720/1080P) is good.
Audio? - needs more testing as to get Dolby etc I am sure it will need to output via the spdif output ... not ideal.
ABM/EPG - haven't tried crossepg (I use XMLTV Importer) but otherwise standard.
Skins? A reasonable selection, although I have yet to force a 1080 skin onto the box, so don't know if that will work.

Kodi 15.2 - with (I have to say) my limited but developing knowledge of Kodi, its a normal Kodi 15.2 system except that you need to be careful which remote you are running with to get it to respond sometimes - I usually use the default Wetek (non E2 remote!)

So next steps, finish off my Kodi video library testing, Audio tests!!!! etc etc

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